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100 percent?! What?! I love industrial. I love metal. I love industrial metal. I love innovative, original, thoughtful music. Blah blah, crap, etc, on with the review.

This'll be the fifth time I've listened to this album, and I still can't wrap my head around it. I still have no idea what in the hell is going on, and I don't think I want to, but this I have figured out: This. Is. Scary. Terrifying. Insane. Puzzling. ...Brilliance.

I certainly don't think this is something you'd want to listen to while walking through an old, abandoned asylum (as you do!) or a cemetery.

There aren't any catchy hooks to be found here. None. At all. I don't think there was ever any intent for there to be, which is good, because it just wouldn't be the same if there were. In actuality, it's really quite droning, but not the point of say... Sunn 0))) or similar bands. Occasionally there'll be drum fills and some slightly droning riffage, but riffage that is still instantly recognisable as black metal.

The vocals are one big monotone slur for the most part, but there are harsh vocals to be found, but it's nothing really impressive, and both types of vocals fit the music very, very well.

There is another type of music in here as well, yes. A kind of dark, droning, eerie ambient industrial that'll leave a sour taste on your tongue. But not the kind of "this is utter shit," kind of sour taste, "what the fuck is going on?!" would be more suitable.

... And, just when you're sitting comfortably in a moment of black metal or industrial, you're transported to ... a jazz lounge. Yes, a jazz lounge. I know, I know it sounds stupid, but it's really quite good, adds to the atmosphere and ambience of this release, it kind of sounds like it's being played through an antique gramophone or old transistor radio, you know that kind of fuzz you pick up with vinyl, or an untuned radio station? It's similar to that, and in the end, it all fits together so remarkably well.

Overall, I found this album far more scary than any horror movie (not that horror movies are scary anyway), in all honesty.. it's really quite terrifying. Terrifying in the sense that a bunch of people could make such inhuman music, as well as terrifying in the "oh shit, I just wet myself" sense.

If you're after something original, buy this. If you're after something terrifying, buy this, but remember: Listen to it with all lights out. And with headphones. Definitely with headphones.